Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus
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Friday, May 13, 2011, 6-9:00pm
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Infuse Entrepreneurship is a program that brings entrepreneurship opportunities to inner-city schools showing students that possibilities are endless in pursuing a charter to make the world a better place through their own ideas. This event is a culmination of the eight-month Entrepreneurial Academy held at Andrew Hill High School for the 2010-2011 academic school year.
Infuse Entrepreneurship is a program that brings entrepreneurship opportunities to inner-city schools showing students that possibilities are endless in pursuing a charter to make the world a better place through their own ideas. This event is a culmination of the eight-month Entrepreneurial Academy held at Andrew Hill High School for the 2010-2011 academic school year.
An initiation into the exciting world of business, our program gives every student the opportunity to be an entrepreneur. The program requires students to draw upon a wealth of valuable skills learned throughout their regular high school curriculum, including creativity, teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, mathematics, written communication, computer science, and public speaking. Students were challenged to develop a product-based business that solves a social or economic issue geared towards green or clean technology.
This program provided the opportunity for students to see entrepreneurship as a vehicle to create, innovate, and inspire each other and the world around them. Symposium of Ideas Be a part of this exciting event to witness students present their journey and product-based business concepts to a panel of judges, coaches and mentors.
Speakers and panel judges include:
Mark Babbitt - CEO of YouTern
Treb Ryan - CEO of OpSource
Shaun Tai - Founder and Executive Director of ODALC.org
Fadi Bishara – Founder & CEO of TechVenture and Blackbox.vc
Lan Nguyen - President at ESUHSD Board of Trustees
Paul Whitney - VP, Human Resources at Infinera Corporation
Keynote Speaker: Brian Wong, Founder of Kiip.me
with Special Musical Guest: The Union Orchestra
Students from Andrew Hill High School will be competing for scholarship money to fund their pursuit for advanced education and will also be competing for internships for coveted Silicon Valley Green and Biotechnology firms. See innovation and inspiration at its peak! Come and join us for this inaugural event and be a part of something dynamic.